Recipes for some lovely biscuits and cookies, which are usually very quick and easy to make.
A new departure for me today, biscotti. I have never eaten one, let alone tried to make any. Biscotti means twice-baked, so it is a biscuit that is baked twice to make it hard and dry and very suitable for dipping into coffee or a hot chocolate sauce. Of course there is nothing to stop […]
I found a recipe, on Waitrose website, for Ginger and Honey Biscuits, with Chocolate & Honey Dip. Now I only wanted the biscuits, not the dip. However, I have reproduced the full recipe below, for those who may wish to have the dip to savour with the biscuits. I followed the recipe precisely and found […]
Sablé Breton, a lovely, crisp and very light biscuit, or cookie, is just the ticket for today. Perfect with a cup of tea, or coffee, they are just so easy to eat. The method also has a huge benefit for the baker, since they are cut out part way through baking, so there are lots […]
I just love a Bounty, from time to time. As an exercise in indulgence I thought I would try to make my own. Although not really baking, since nothing goes in the oven, I have included them in my blog as they fit nicely as a sweet snack, with lots of lovely coconut and chocolate. […]
Now this biscuit recipe is from Le Cordon Blue book Patisserie and Baking Foundations – Classic Recipes. I bought the book a few days ago and decided that this would be my first bake from it. Other recipes seem to be called Sablés Hollandais, but I have stuck with the name as printed in my book. […]
This is my version of a meltingly light shortbread biscuit. I came up with it after reading a few different recipes for Highlander biscuits, that seemed to use evaporated milk, or some similar liquid. But I found a few that didn’t include liquid, only softened butter. So my version is very similar to a shortbread, […]
I decided on a biscuit day, and first up was my take on Anzac Biscuits. ANZAC actually stands for Australian and New Zealand Army Corp. That army fought valiantly in World War 1 at Gallipoli and other places. Anzac biscuits, in one form, were sent to the troops. I believe, from reading, that those biscuits […]
I wanted to make some lemon biscuits, so that is what I did, and what a very nice biscuit they are too. I started by searching around for a recipe. The first I found was for something called Gooey Lemon Cookies. But I was not convinced, by the listed ingredients, that they would effectively hold […]
Years ago McVitie’s used to have a wonderful biscuit called Abbey Crunch. They don’t seem to make it any more, and it is such a shame. They tasted so good, with a crunchy at texture and a lovely flavour of golden syrup. I just had to try to make some so I set about looking […]
I found an interesting recipe for these Cardamom and Lemon biscuits(cookies) on the BBC Food site. It is a recipe from The Hairy Bikers. Since I had some cardamom that I had ground myself a few weeks ago, and a lemon that was sitting looking sorry for itself, I thought I would give them a […]